American writer (1954- )
The truth can both lift up and knock down.
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Ever After
Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Ever After
[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.
KIRBY LARSON
interview, Author Turf, March 6, 2014
I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded.
KIRBY LARSON
interview, Feb. 23, 2010
There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Big Sky
I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Big Sky
It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Big Sky
I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.
KIRBY LARSON
interview, Author Turf, March 6, 2014
I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.
KIRBY LARSON
interview, Author Turf, March 6, 2014
Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don't do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.
KIRBY LARSON
interview, Feb. 27, 2009
Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.
KIRBY LARSON
Kirby's Lane, Nov. 30, 2012
There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Big Sky
I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.
KIRBY LARSON
interview, Feb. 23, 2010
The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.
KIRBY LARSON
The Friendship Doll
Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Big Sky
Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Big Sky
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
KIRBY LARSON
Hattie Big Sky
I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk Winston the Wonder dog and have my breakfast, I head to my office. Every single day. Sometimes, when I'm working on revisions, I print off my manuscript and go to a coffee shop to work. But mostly you can find me in my office.
KIRBY LARSON
interview, Read, Write, Reflect, February 5, 2013
When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a detective, like Encyclopedia Brown. Being a researcher is a way I've achieved that dream ... without the danger.
KIRBY LARSON
interview, Read, Write, Reflect, February 5, 2013
Our actions make the fragrance of our lives.... Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?
KIRBY LARSON
The Friendship Doll